北京嚴控人口規模 2300萬是"天花板"

Beijing again vowed that it would strongly rein in its population growth and set a ceiling of 23 million as the capital grapples with a shortage of water resources and a looming limit in carrying capacity.

因爲首都水資源短缺，承載能力又已接近極限，北京政府近日再發將嚴格控制人口增長的聲明，並設置了2300萬人的上限。

The target was part of the city's next five-year development proposals approved by a plenary session of the Beijing municipal Party committee on Wednesday. For the first time ever, "strict control of population growth" was incorporated into the resolutions of such a meeting.

本週三，北京市委全體會議通過了包含該目標的下一個五年發展計劃。這也是有史以來第一次將“嚴格控制人口增長”納入了會議決議。

Guo Jinlong, Beijing's Party chief, said that an oversized population remains the most prominent problem, and that excessively rapid growth is an important cause of the city's "urban ills." He said the targeted population of 23 million was calculated based on the capability of the city's water resources to support its residents.

北京市委書記郭金龍表示,過多的人口仍然是最突出的問題,而人口的過快增長則是導致“城市病”的重要原因。他說2300萬人口的目標是基於提供給居民的城市水資源的能力而制定的。

The Beijing Municipal Committee also announced Wednesday that the capital plans to move most of its municipal departments to the suburban district of Tongzhou in 2017. Tongzhou was designated as the site of a new administrative center for the municipal government to help relieve the current heavy pressure on public services in downtown Beijing, where the central government is located.

北京市委員會週三還宣佈,計劃2017年將其大部分的市政部門搬到郊區通州。將通州定爲新的市政府行政中心，可以幫助緩解當前北京市區，也是中央政府所在地公共服務方面的巨大壓力。

The relocation is also part of the integration plan for the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei cluster, which aims to ease congestion in the capital and achieve more balanced development in the region.

重新安置也是京津冀城市羣一體化計劃的一部分,旨在緩解首都交通擁堵，並實現更加平衡的發展。

In 2005, the State Council, or China's cabinet, set the goal of having a total of 18 million people for Beijing in 2020. But the city's population has already surged to 21.54 million.

2005年,中國政府及國務院設定的目標是2020年北京人口達到1800萬。但是北京的人口數量現如今已經飆升至2154萬人。